After cancelling his October 4th stop at Wells Fargo Center (reportedly due to wife Kim Kardashian’s robbery in France), hip-hop icon Kanye West officially rescheduled his Philadelphia date to December 13th, and even added a second on December 15th.

It’s his first gig in Philly since his appearance at 2014’s Made in America festival, and West is ready with new music (The Life of Pablo was released earlier this year), and ready to show why he’s one of the biggest artists in the world. In addition, West announced 18 more dates added on to his already massive Saint Pablo Tour, moving across the west coast and finishing with a New Year’s Eve show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Tickets for the December 12th show are already on sale, and tickets for the December 15th show go on sale October 22nd at noon; more information can be found at the XPN Concert Calendar.

Kanye West‘s The Life Of Pablo has been a lot of things: a mystery, a “living breathing changing creative expression”, a flop, a hit, a steal, and most of all, a zeitgeist defining moment in current music. According to Stereogum, its on its way to be the first #1 album that made almost no money. No one knows if West knows what he is doing, but he is definitely succeeding.

Hardwork Movement, the Philly hip-hop collective, have released their cover of the TLOP highlight “30 Hours.” Their take, which comes along with their own version of the cover art, faithfully takes the instrumental to new heights with verses from the Hardwork MC’s.

HM plays Key Fest at MilkBoy later this month on its first night, April 22nd, along with Ill Doots, Kate Faust, and Joie Kathos. For tickets and more information for Key Fest, check out the XPN Concert Calender.

Listen to Hardwork Movement’s cover of Kanye West’s “30 Hours” below.

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Zilla Rocca | Photo by Laura Lynn Photography

As you may have heard, Kanye West is still tweaking his newest album, The Life of Pablo. He recently tweeted that the record is “a living breathing changing creative creative expression,” and he’s sticking to his word: just two days ago, he updated “Wolves,” adding contributions from both Vic Mensa and Sia. Such is the advantage of never releasing a physical copy of your record, it seems.

Meanwhile, back in Philly, DJ and rapper Zilla Rocca have been working on their own edits of “Wolves.” The MC just released his new version of the track, “The Wolf of Wolf Street.” Zilla Rocca explained his rationale for wanting to cover “Wolves” in an email to The Key:

“The backstory is that Manipulator posted his flip of “Wolves” randomly on Soundcloud a week ago. I was sitting around and heard it and just couldn’t stop playing it, since “Wolves” is my favorite song on The Life of Pablo. But my only issue with the original is that Kanye rhymes “lambs wool” with “FUCKING wolves”, not “goddamn wolves” – been driving me CRAZY as a rapper. So I wanted to resolve this oversight and made my version: “The Wolf of Wolf Street” since I live on Wolf Street in South Philly, and “Teen Wolf had a huge impact on me in the ’80s – yes, even the shitty sequel with Patrick Bateman.”

DJ Manipulator’s remix is more energetic than Kanye’s version, picking up the tempo and adding a drumbeat under the original beat. Lyrically, Zilla Rocca’s peppers his flow with a number of homages to Kanye’s verses (the notorious “I know it’s corny bitches you wish you could unfollow” line is replaced with “Corny friends I had to unfollow / one lives with mom and his threats are hollow”). It all makes for a playful cover that isn’t half bad.

Which reminds me: Kanye, if you’re reading this, you might want to consider adding this track to the next edit of TLOP. The album is a living, breathing creative expression, after all.

Dan and Dan (XPN’s Reed and the Inquier’s DeLuca) have released episode 26 of their Dan and Dan Podcast, which features producer Mike Vasilikos interviewing folk hero Graham Nash.

Vasilikos spoke to Nash while he was in Philly to perform at World Cafe Live and XPN’s Free At Noon. Nash, who is now 74, spoke about his time with The Hollies and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, his book Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life, his upcoming record This Path Tonight, and much more.

The newest episode of the podcast also includes Dan and Dan covering Grammy issues (Taylor beating Kendrick, Trainor beating Barnett), Kanye’s insane actions and the rollout of The Life Of Pablo, pirating music, HBO’s new tribute to the 70’s music industry Vinyl, and various other topics in music today.

Graham Nash’s new album, This Path Tonight, is out 4/15 on Blue Castle Records. Listen to the title track here.

Listen to episode 26 of The Dan and Dan Podcast below, and follow the podcast on Twitter and iTunes. Watch Graham Nash perform the classic “Teach Your Children” for XPN’s Free At Noon here.